04/12/2012 | Argentina

After meeting with Ecuador's President Rafael Correa today, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that Latin American countries find themselves in a “better position than ever” and that the region cannot “miss this historic opportunity."

04/12/2012 | Argentina

Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, said he would discuss a lawsuit against Chevron for environmental damage in Ecuador's jungle areas with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez after plaintiffs took their case to that country.

17/08/2012 | World

Julian Assange's supporters outside the London embassy where he is confined say he is being persecuted for speaking truth to power, but free speech campaigners further afield say the WikiLeaks founder has lost his way and damaged the cause.

30/06/2013 | Latin America

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the fate of former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is in the hands of the authorities in Russia, where he is holed up in hope of obtaining asylum in the South American nation.

24/02/2014 | Latin America

Ecuador's opposition has won control of the capital Quito and another major city in the oil-producing Andean nation in elections, preliminary results showed, a result President Rafael Correa said threatened to make the country harder to govern.

16/02/2013 | Latin America

Close to 11.7 million people in Ecuador are expected to vote tomorrow as they elect their new president, vice-president and 137 congressmen for the 2013-2017 term. Incumbent head of state Rafael Correa is highly expected to be re-elected.

17/02/2013 | Latin America

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election, giving him a new four-year term to continue his socialist revolution and strengthen Latin America's alliance of leftist leaders.

18/02/2013 | Latin America

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa vowed today to press ahead with laws to control the media and redistribute land to the poor as he looks to deepen his socialist revolution after a resounding re-election victory.

22/12/2012 | Latin America

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced a 9 percent increase in the minimum wage for private-sector workers for 2013, a move that may help consolidate his February re-election bid that polls broadly show him favored to win.

22/08/2012 | Latin America

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that Britain's failure to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet more than a decade ago means it has no right to lecture others over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

25/08/2012 | Latin America

Britain has withdrawn a threat to enter Ecuador's embassy in London to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has taken refuge there, President Rafael Correa said today, taking the heat out of the diplomatic standoff.

01/08/2012 | Latin America

Ecuador wants to prevent Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden because it is disappointed that the Scandinavian country has turned down an offer to question the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, a minister said.

18/08/2012 | Latin America

Ecuador cast its dispute with Britain over asylum for WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange as a struggle against colonialism today, drawing growing support from its neighbours in the international diplomatic saga.

24/10/2011 | Latin America

All members of the Ecuadorean presidential cabinet have tendered their resignations to president Rafael Correa on Monday, presidential secretary Alexis Mera announced, explaining that it was Correa himself who had asked for them to do so.

27/02/2012 | Latin America

Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, on Monday pardoned three newspaper publishers and a former columnist who had been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay $40 million damages in a libel case that angered media freedom advocates.

02/04/2012 | Latin America

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said he will not attend this month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, nor any other gathering that excludes Cuba or fails to address what he calls the region's most pressing issues.

30/07/2011 | Latin America

The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) will hold an “urgent meeting,” suggested by Colombia, to establish actions to protect the region from the possible economic crisis of the United States, the Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa reported.

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10/08/2012 | Sports

Argentina's Miguel Correa and Rubén Rézola qualified to the kayak double (K2) 200m men's finals and add up a new olympic diploma, after ending at the third place at the London 2012 Olympic Games semi-finals held at Eton Dorney Rowing Centre.